"This Is a Good Jap": What We Forget about What War Does to Us

Jul 25, 2024

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Two images from World War II: in the first, a woman looks at a skull sent by her soldier afield. In the other, marines are in their foxholes, in the Pacific Theatre, blending with the wildness of nature.

I’ve been drawing comfort lately from Rachel Maddow’s Ultra podcast (maybe too much comfort, as I’ll discuss after Season 2 is finished), because it’s an excellent reminder that we haven’t changed much in the last century. Oh, our gadgets have! And we’ve tucked a new fact or three into our vast compendium of shared knowledge!

But humans? Humans haven’t c…

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